Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Loder

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Kirk Franklin

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Kirk Hammett

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Kirk Cameron

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Ken Hensley

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Kathleen Hanna

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

Kathleen Hanna

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

Nick Rhodes

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Mark Twain

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Nicholas Meyer

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Nicholas Sparks

I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.

Nicholas Sparks

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

Muhammad Ali

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

Mitch Miller

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

Marian Wright Edelman

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Idris Elba

In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Giorgio Moroder

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

J. K. Rowling

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

Grace Metalious

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Grace Jones

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

Matt Groening

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

Mary Harron

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

Marisa Miller

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

Little Richard

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Little Richard

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Little Richard

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Little Richard

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

Little Richard

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Little Richard

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!